#Indigenous liberation

[haykhighland]

Nare Simonyan, displaced Artsakhtsi

Film: "Armenia: The Fall of Nagorno-Karabagh"

Director: Astrig Agopian

[missmayhemvr]

Like halfway through "how Europe underdeveloped Africa" cause I decided I'd read/listen to it after I had a strong base on knowledge on African history and just holy fuck is he right about nearly everything so far.

Having learned about how extensive African trade was prior to the 18th century and how heavily most African kingdoms shifted in the 16th it's very clear that what he points out in the way the slave trade and the need to aquire firearms grew the European economies while near completely emptying out African economies and how the hard shift to European import goods after Europe had grow through the use of African slave labor and monopoly of trade routes is still a largely still at play in the era of neocolonialism.

The way that Walter Rodney not just points out that this is true, but the depth to which he covers a variety of African kingdoms, their economies, and cultural practices puts even some college level courses to shame while also showcasing the exact ways in which some of these stronger or more expansive kingdoms like the Ashanti, oyo, borno, Kongo, and Benin kingdoms had explicitly tried everything to get guns through any other trade and how the Ashanti, merina, Ethiopian, Burundi Benin kingdoms sought our education and scholars to begin industrialization and the systematic way in which Europeans and Americans prevented that is just, well it's damming.

It's a continuing reminder how from the first stage of European expansion and control they had precisely zero good intentions for the peoples of Africa. That Europe saw Africa as nothing more than a way to grow itself, it's institutions and improve its economies by depriving Africa of labor, materials and freedom which is true to this day, most starkly in the Congo but true across the whole region.

But while the book shows the crimes of Europeans without sugar coating, it also doesn't glorify the African leaders and more importantly those that became collaborative with European despitism. It also does not abide by the word games the European powers like to play and goes in depth to the way Europeans had no actual interest in ending slavery, and that while invading the various kingdoms and communities to "end slavery" the created some of the most brutal slave conditions on this side of the globe, not just in Leopolds Congo but in French forced labor camps and British controlled regions, with the Portuguese being particularly up front about it.

Truly a shame that like most other black radicals Rodney was murdered so young. The rarity to which black radicals even get to 40 shows how desperately capitalist and white supremist try to prevent even the slightest push back from black voices. It also makes clear how much we all need to know this stuff, from debois's black reconstruction to nkrumah's neoimperialism these books give a great understanding of the past and the precise way in which we arrived to the current situation.

I pray that with the new scramble for Africa that is unfolding in front of our very faces, the genocides in the Congo, and Sudan, and the way in which these interlock with the genocide of Palestinians, that we all take the time to properly read and reflect so that we may properly organize and fight back for a fully free and sovereign Africa and Palestine and a world free from white supremacy.

[yellingfellow]

I want to SCREAAAAAMMMM

The world is fucking burning

Palestinians are being starved in their fucking tents that they have to live in because their whole neighborhoods have been bombed

Congolese women are being raped for not meeting their quotas

People are pulling each other out of mines that have collapsed

Babies are laying next to their dead mothers

Trump is on the ballot in Colorado

Indigenous women and teens being kidnapped and murdered and no one wants to help

They won’t search the landfills for the remains of dead natives

We’re being fed stories by the same 6 media coroporations and AI generated fucking prompts are taking over all forms of video and picture we can’t even know what is real

The world is fucking burning and the ice is melting and earthquakes and tsunamis are shaking the fucking earth and people’s homes are being flooded and completely destroyed

But no lets just keep pretending like it matters if I pay my fucking taxes

[of-monsters-and-werewolves]

Something to reiterate: Free Palestine doesn't just refer to Gaza and the West Bank, it refers to the entirety of Palestine, including the land currently occupied by so called Israel.

The destruction of Israel as a state is not inherently antisemitic either, but it can become so depending on, among other things, how consistent you are in applying this to other settler colonies. Indigenous Liberation movements worldwide nearly always involve land back and the abolition of the settler state, including in the so called USA and Canada.

[comrade-onion]

The Liberation of Palestine and the Rights of Indigenous Americans: The Same Struggle

532 years ago, America was "discovered" by Europeans for the first time. What resulted from this fateful day was nothing short of a genocide. Millions systemically displaced and killed, cultures destroyed, and ecosystems irreparably altered to accommodate the European colonizers at the expense of the people who lived there. In both the United States and Canada, remaining indigenous populations face massive societal discrimination and are victim to underfunding and exploitation from the governments of their respective states. Many are forced into poverty, underfunded reservations, and horrid living conditions. Sound similar?

The genocide in Gaza and the expansion of the Israeli settler state is almost completely congruent to the history of violence experienced by indigenous Americans. Both the Palestinian liberation struggle and the Land Back movement in the US are inherently interwined in their ideals and histories, and any anti-imperialist should recognize the victory of these struggles as fundamental to the development of equality and liberty for the oppressed.

Solidarity with Palestine and Solidarity with the First Nation's People forever. No freedom, no peace, on stolen land.

[thepeopleinpower]

Capitalism and colonialism took community away from us and I want it back. I’ve heard about it from my grandparents and in books and articles online. All throughout history and still today in some parts of the world. People looking out for each other. Regularly. Relentlessly. Neighbors watching each others children, having enough food to share and actually sharing it, being invested in each others lives because everyone has different strengths.

Today community has been strategically painted as a weakness and something to be skeptical of because it is a threat to the very foundations of capitalism. And that’s a real fucking shame because in reality, growing up with community and still having that through adulthood would probably make most people generally happier and less perpetually tired and stressed. It is renewable resilient versatile adaptable self-sustaining and kind of the Ultimate Resource.

[anarchistin]

Fires were rare in Hawaii and on other tropical islands before humans arrived, and native ecosystems evolved without them. This means great environmental damage can occur when fires erupt.

For example, fires remove vegetation. When a fire is followed by heavy rainfall, the rain can carry loose soil into the ocean, where it can smother coral reefs.

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[chaithetics]

The Long Struggle of the Kanak People

Please read this to learn more about the oppression and colonisation that the Kanak people have suffered from the French government it is important that we learn and listen to lived experiences, indigenous voices are so rarely given this platform.

Nobody is truly free until we're all free and that includes all indigenous peoples in every corner of the world! If you stand with Palestine, you stand with the Kanak peoples as well!

[decolonize-the-everything]

I've waited 2 months for this to be available

The book was noteworthy for its relevance to the Alcatraz-Red Power Movement and other activist organizations, such as the American Indian Movement, which was beginning to expand. Deloria's book encouraged better use of federal funds aimed at helping Native Americans. Vine Deloria, Jr. presents Native Americans in a humorous light, devoting an entire chapter to Native American humor. Custer Died for Your Sins was significant in its presentation of Native Americans as a people who were able to retain their tribal society and morality, while existing in the modern world.

From wiki

The book description:

"In his new preface to this paperback edition, the author observes, "The Indian world has changed so substantially since the first publication of this book that some things contained in it seem new again." Indeed, it seems that each generation of whites and Indians will have to read and reread Vine Deloria’s Manifesto for some time to come, before we absorb his special, ironic Indian point of view and what he tells us, with a great deal of humor, about U.S. race relations, federal bureaucracies, Christian churches, and social scientists. This book continues to be required reading for all Americans, whatever their special interest."

[chimeraxmachina]

Queer people cannot be considered liberated as long as indigenous peoples are oppressed and their land is occupied.

[mourntomidnight]

I am 100% at the point where idc if trump wins again and idc if that means project 2025 becomes a reality because I’m Mexican I know how this shit goes when reading history and imo thinking about wwii and what I could’ve done in that era I am stating that even if fleeing the country is not feasible I would not want to do it anyway because I am completely emotionally and mentally prepared for joining a resistance group should a second trump term happens and our already fascist government becomes even more so because I truly am committed to fighting for liberation from the bs Christcuck capitalist American empire to enact a return to turtle island.

[wormonastringtheory]

It's Indigenous Solidarity Day in so-called "canada". I've seen VERY little discussion on here of it. Let's change that. I'm a settler and it's my bare-minimum commitment to challenge colonial silence.

Please dedicate yourself to Indigenous communities. Learn who's land you're on! Build connections with local Indigenous community members and make those connections nourishing and supportive, not tokenizing. Make sure you actually know the history and names and languages of the people's land you occupy. Make sure you actually make intentional and repeated, sustained efforts to support Indigenous mutual aid, food sovereignty, archival work, language revitalization and legal fund efforts. Learn about the health and environmental disparities of the communities around you. But also, engage with Indigenous joy! Engage with Indigenous spaces that you know are open to settlers. Support Indigenous land defenders and Land defence actions and encampments. Learn about sacred medicines and farming practices and art styles and agreements between nations (for example, the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Covenant), with permission. Challenge your relationship with colonial language, relationship dynamics, views on identity and spirituality, and what colonial structures you interact with and uphold and make the commitment to work to distance yourself from that structure and work to dismantle it! Read decolonial literature, attend open workshops and education sessions and never give up on your ongoing learning. Commit to decolonial resistance for your lifetime and beyond.

[missmayhemvr]

Most serious question of my life, what the fuck are people being taught about the rise of fascism in Europe to have so fucking many people completely unaware that the dems are doing the wiemer strategy? Or that France and Germany are also doing the exact same strategy? Or that that hilter gained his confidence to do the shit he did from what the Japanese did in China and Korea and what Italy did to the horn of Africa? Like have we just removed all traces of that info from our schools or did the west just learn zero lessons? The liberals have once again shown they will rather become the exact guy they claim to be against than have even slightly less far right pro capitalist economic policies, they will drop social progressivism like a hot rock to maintain their power and their profits. What's not clicking about this? They are doing it in our faces, congress people are doing the political equal to crying and pulling the trigger and in and out, they are talking about state and corporate projects in the exact same tones as the axis. Come on yall wake the fuck up.

[corvidist]

For May Day

(No images include participants, ofc)

[personal-blog243]

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Join us in calling on President Biden to approve the first-ever national monument management plan informed by Tribal Nations. The plan, known as Alternative E, supports Indigenous stewardship and responsible recreation in Bears Ears National Monument.

[comrade-onion]

Happy workers day❤️🇵🇸

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